resistance vs defiance

resistance and defiance both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
resistance	Yes	No	No	No
defiance	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, defiance is a hyponym of resistance; that is, defiance is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than resistance:

resistance (noun)	defiance (noun)
group action in opposition to those in power	a defiant act
the military action of resisting the enemy's advance	intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude
the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with	a hostile challenge
an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current
the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria)
(psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness
a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force
any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion
a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms
(medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease
the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents